The very warm air brought to us on the southerly winds from the Azores region gave us another warm day on Saturday with the maximum edging a little higher than Friday giving a maximum of 22.9C being almost 9C above the long-term average.
As often happens in these weather conditions, thunderstorms arrived in the early evening and again between 1am and 2am. The first lightning was observed at 20.28 with frequent flashes for over an hour. The second wave came after midnight. Heavy rain rain fell starting at 21.30 with another lighter shower just after 1am.
The total rain amounted to 4.3mm bringing the total for April to 52.7mm, which is 91% of the April average.
The sun was shining brightly as it moved above the horizon this morning with the promise of more hazy sunshine today.
With a minimum temperature of 11.8C overnight it was the warmest night since 25th October and the ground temperature at a depth of 5cm was 13.3C at 08.00.
Sunday update at 20.30: a change in wind direction from southerly to westerly early afternoon starts to moderate temperature. Maximum down 3C from Saturday but still above average.
